Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 17 October 2012
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform
Public Expenditure and Reform Vote: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
5:30 pm
Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party)
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They were privatised and the same will happen with water. Once one modifies a service, as proposed with Irish Water, it is turned into a commodity, after which it is ready to be handed over to the privateers or private companies which are now bleeding the people dry. That is the record.